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ghostyjack · 05-25-2012, 08:09 AM

I'm obviously not getting to grips with regex, even after reading what I can find here.

I've imported a HTML file into Sigil that was generated by Word so I've got an absolute mass of "MsoNormal" classes on my <p> tags. The original file was in a very bad state and would have taken far too much time to tidy it up in Word, so I though I'd do it in Sigil with regex. It also turned out that virtually every paragraph had a different style, so I've also got lots of Sigil-generated styles as well for each paragraph, approximately 5,000 of them.

There is no way I'm going to go through this line-by-line and remove them one at a time, so the only way I can see to remove them is with regex.

So, to my problem.

The <p> tag looks like:

Code:

<p class="MsoNormal sgc-669">

With the number ranging anywhere from 1 to 5000.

This is what I put into the Find field:

Code:

<p class="MsoNormal sgc-\d\+">

With Replace being:

Code:

<p>

I've set the mode as being Regex and the Look being Current File (I've manually split the file into separate chapter files) as I'm doing it chapter-by-chapter so as to reduce the number of mistakes.

When I do this though, Sigil tells me it could find no matches. So, either I've made a mistake in my regex, or Sigil is not working properly for me.

So can anyone tell me if my regex is wrong and what I need to do to correct it please.

05-25-2012, 08:09 AM	#1
ghostyjack Guru Posts: 718 Karma: 1085610 Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Bristol, England Device: PRS-T1, 1825PT, Galaxy Tab, One X, TF700T, Aura HD, Nexus 7	Can't seem to get regex to work in Sigil I'm obviously not getting to grips with regex, even after reading what I can find here. I've imported a HTML file into Sigil that was generated by Word so I've got an absolute mass of "MsoNormal" classes on my <p> tags. The original file was in a very bad state and would have taken far too much time to tidy it up in Word, so I though I'd do it in Sigil with regex. It also turned out that virtually every paragraph had a different style, so I've also got lots of Sigil-generated styles as well for each paragraph, approximately 5,000 of them. There is no way I'm going to go through this line-by-line and remove them one at a time, so the only way I can see to remove them is with regex. So, to my problem. The <p> tag looks like: Code: <p class="MsoNormal sgc-669"> With the number ranging anywhere from 1 to 5000. This is what I put into the Find field: Code: <p class="MsoNormal sgc-\d\+"> With Replace being: Code: <p> I've set the mode as being Regex and the Look being Current File (I've manually split the file into separate chapter files) as I'm doing it chapter-by-chapter so as to reduce the number of mistakes. When I do this though, Sigil tells me it could find no matches. So, either I've made a mistake in my regex, or Sigil is not working properly for me. So can anyone tell me if my regex is wrong and what I need to do to correct it please.